Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian Unwins , sitting with the rival owners of Flokati , were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise , good hay was best . |
| 2 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 3 | The bomber had been caught a little to the North-West of Gozo by 7/JG 26 at 0750 , and shot down by Oblt . |
| 4 | With an ink nib had been added the name of Michael Holly . |
| 5 | It was agreed the method of the selling of tickets for future occasions should be considered but that once the quota had been reached no further participants should be admitted . |
| 6 | Happily Herbert had eventually trotted off and to Amy 's distress had been seen no more , although his lead still hung on the caravan door , a limp reminder of her bereavement . |
| 7 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 8 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 9 | The Duke of Mar , unwelcome in Scotland following his much-criticised flight after ‘ The Fifteen ’ , was employed as a decoy , leaving Rome with a large retinue , by way of Florence , and by the time the imposture had been discovered the real Pretender had , on 8 February 1719 , himself left Rome undetected , the start of a journey which , had the stakes not been so high , would have belonged to the realm of farce . |
| 10 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 11 | The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to . |
| 12 | Construction work had been halted a week earlier in line with EC demands . |
| 13 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 14 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 15 | To keep the temperature low , a skylight in the ceiling had been opened a crack ; a few flakes of snow drifted about the room before melting . |
| 16 | The resection had been performed a median of three years previously ( range 3–8 years ) . |
| 17 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 18 | David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's Director of Public Affairs , would not comment on suggestions that Her Honour had been administered a fast-acting tranquiliser . |
| 19 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 20 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 21 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 22 | In the great struggle to extend cultivation to feed the growing cities , the peasantry had been defeated no less decisively than the Crown . |
| 23 | The Banking on the Poor campaign had been launched a week before and the main speakers there , Bishop Mauro Morelli from Rio de Janeiro and Susan George the author of ‘ A Fate Worse Then Debt ’ , also spoke at the conference . |
| 24 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 25 | Allison was among many who were convinced that the Welshman had been denied the 60metres hurdles crown because the race starter , Toronto property manager Ron Bell , had let local hero Mark McKoy get away with a ‘ flyer ’ . |
| 26 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 27 | Tom DeMoss joined the project in 1979 ( after the first team had been given the boot ) . |
| 28 | There would also be new roads and possibly other investment : the nearest town to the Sizewell site had been promised a new swimming pool . |
| 29 | Her job had been made a little easier by the price-fixing agreement reached at a recent meeting for European farm ministers . |
| 30 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |